Hi Shu, Sorry I didn't go into more detail, yes I intend to copy the snapshot to a different medium (potentially to a DR site, at the very least to an independent NAS). The snapshot is just so I can grab a consistent copy of the disk (even though I understand it risks filesystem corruption due to incomplete writes) If oVirt now supports hot snapshots it in 3.1 we will look into this.
Jason On 18/10/2012, at 3:29 PM, Shu Ming <shum...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > Basically, backup is different from snapshotting. Backup should have another > storage different from the current share storage to store the disk content. > oVirt 3.1 does have support for live snapshot of the VM disks and Qemu 1.1 is > required at least to support this operation. In oVirt 3.1, you can also > create an backup domain to store the VM disks, but I think it is not the real > backup to another physical storage. So you may have to copy the snapshot made > to other physical storage manually . > > 2012-10-18 9:20, Jason Lawer: >> Hi, >> >> Can anyone give advice on what they are using for backup on their ovirt >> deployments. We have been using tar balls & rsync on our linux servers, but >> are looking for something more manageable and the number of servers grows >> rapidly. >> >> I ask because I have been looking at a few options. The first idea that came >> to mind was a hot snapshot of the virtual disk, however from what I can see >> ovirt won't allow that. Most of the others have serious drawbacks, so I >> wanted to know if anyone had a silver bullet before I put more time into it. >> >> >> Jason >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users@ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > > > -- > --- > 舒明 Shu Ming > Open Virtualization Engineerning; CSTL, IBM Corp. > Tel: 86-10-82451626 Tieline: 9051626 E-mail: shum...@cn.ibm.com or > shum...@linux.vnet.ibm.com > Address: 3/F Ring Building, ZhongGuanCun Software Park, Haidian District, > Beijing 100193, PRC > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
